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Jesse loves cookies and wants the sweetness of some cookies to be greater than value . To do this, two cookies with the least sweetness are repeatedly mixed. This creates a special combined cookie with:

sweetness Least sweet cookie 2nd least sweet cookie).

This occurs until all the cookies have a sweetness .

Given the sweetness of a number of cookies, determine the minimum number of operations required. If it is not possible, return .

Example

The smallest values are .
Remove them then return to the array. Now .
Remove and return to the array. Now .
Remove , return and .
Finally, remove and return to . Now .
All values are so the process stops after iterations. Return .

Function Description
Complete the cookies function in the editor below.

cookies has the following parameters:

  • int k: the threshold value
  • int A[n]: an array of sweetness values

Returns

  • int: the number of iterations required or

Input Format

The first line has two space-separated integers, and , the size of and the minimum required sweetness respectively.

The next line contains space-separated integers, .

Constraints



Sample Input

STDIN               Function
-----               --------
6 7                 A[] size n = 6, k = 7
1 2 3 9 10 12       A = [1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 12]  

Sample Output

2

Explanation

Combine the first two cookies to create a cookie with sweetness =
After this operation, the cookies are .
Then, combine the cookies with sweetness and sweetness , to create a cookie with resulting sweetness =
Now, the cookies are .
All the cookies have a sweetness .

Thus, operations are required to increase the sweetness.

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